@EvelynInaba From what I heard, the girl nichiasa anime of that year, Ashita no Nadja, also has a really nasty rival in Rosemary, who is pretty much girl Kusaka in term of manipulation and betrayal. So both boys and girls must be pretty traumatized that year.
@UchuKeibitai The Destroyer from the novel is the main villain of the Blade 20th stage show. It supposedly ended with the Master having a conversation with the Destroyer, hinting that the event of the novel is coming. Thus making the novel part of the main Blade continuity.
@GarlicBredStix Hajime is one of the main characters, alongside Kenzaki and the new Garren and Leangle. Garren and Leangle King form also technically debuted here but they never said that it's a King form.
I haven't watched it but the Blade anniv stage show seems to set up the novel.
@GarlicBredStix@UchuKeibitai the novel never said if Tachibana's or Mutsuki's descendant participated in that war. The setting of the novel is 300 years later with the world mostly flooded, the elites live inside a domed city in the Arctic while the rest live at the sea or the few lands still intact.
@TheDoct37878744@RaihanH98 the Toei nichiasa girl anime of that year, Ashita no Nadja, also has an evil rival too. Saw some Japanese comments that said 2003 nichiasa traumatized both boys and girls with the rival characters lol.